Menhirs of Trimen

Menhirs of Trimen

The former stone row of Menhirs of Trimen ( French Menhirs de Tri-Men or de Tri Men ) is located in a field south of Saint-Goazec in the Finistère department in Brittany in France . Trimen means three stones. They were classified as a Monument historique in 1914 .

Here once stood ten menhirs from the Neolithic of which were overturned and seven were still in 1901 three. Today there are three menhirs, two of which are located here. The upright menhir, which lacks an upper corner, is about three feet high.

See also

• Menhirs of Brittany

literature

• Jacques Briard : The Megaliths of Brittany. Gisserot, Paris 1991.
• Jean-Marie Bachelot de La Pylaie: Études archéologiques et geographiques mêlées d'observations et de notices diverses. Deprez-Parent, Bruxelles 1850 (reprint: Société archéologique du Finistère, Quimper 1970).

Web links

Commons : Alignement de Trimen  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Alignement des menhirs de Trimen in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
• Description and picture (French)
• Description and picture (French)
• Description and picture (English)

Coordinates: 48 ° 8 '20.8 "  N , 3 ° 46" 37.6 "  W.